Pichai said he himself followed instructions to retain emails, documents and chat logs.
His testimony covered the “sideloading” of apps – the downloading of an app from a source other than the official Google Play store – and the Play store’s fees.Įpic’s attorney asked Pichai about Google’s policy of not retaining chat histories, which has been a matter of contention throughout the trial.
Android is unprecedented, there’s never been a free and open operating system that’s reached two and a half billion users,” Pichai said. “Our mission is to provide access to information, to make it universally accessible and useful.